Crying wolf, foreign agendas and Israel's role in destabilising Syria
Al-Jazeera, 1 Feb 2012
Suva, Fiji - It's been a dismally predictable,
transparent and nasty lie by regimes under assault in the Arab Spring
that the mass uprisings are being whipped up by foreign agitators -
usually meaning Israel and the United States, maybe France, Europe
generally, now sometimes Turkey or, heaven forfend, Al Jazeera
journalists. Only the most gullible swallow these claims: their
principal effect is to make the claimants look like buffoons. Still,
a government's crying wolf doesn't mean a wolf isn't around somewhere.
It's equally gullible to assume that foreign agendas have no role in
Syria, for example. ... more
it was this article on al-jazeera that alerted me to this blog. this article was long overdue and incisive. everybody is shouting about a war with Iran, but it was only George W who went mad and decided to put troops on the ground in the middle-east. Ever since 1953 Middle-east policy in the US has always been to destabilise, destabilise and detabilise
ReplyDeleteNow this is a real hoot!
ReplyDeleteIt is hilarious that in your article your first paragraph is how the endless “foreigner lead” conspiracy claims so common in the Middle East are obviously wrong, defection etc but then you show everyone you are hooked on the same drug in the rest of the article by promoting your own conspiracy theory regarding USA/Jews puppet masters being behind all the troubles in Syria.
Oman’s Quote: “but it was only George W who went mad and decided to put troops on the ground in the middle-east. Ever since 1953 Middle-east policy in the US has always been to destabilize, destabilize and destabilize”
Hi Oman,
Got a quick question for you and feel free to contribute Virginia Tilley.
Ever since I lived in the Middle East I have heard over and over from the media talking heads etc just how stupid Americans such as GW Bush are and then the same media talking head a second later tells me these American morons are actually evil geniuses running dozens of conspiracies to maintain control of the Middle East (& the world in general).
Well Oman and Virginia you can’t have it both ways so are Americans complete morons who are too stupid to see your brilliant solutions & insights or are the Americans evil geniuses running an intricate web of global conspiracies that any James Bond super villain would look on with envy?
Pick one because it is impossible for the Americans to be both!
Warmest Regards, Smoker
Anonymous: Sure you can be both. They are quite clever for short-term return. But they're foolish because they won't look at long-term investment. Just because you play the game well doesn't make the game worth playing. (And by the way, "Americans" is far too generalising; I'm assuming you mean the American political/corportate elite)
DeleteHi Brenda,
DeleteLove your explanation post but since I am not always pulling with both oars I need a tiny bit more explanation to understand your logic.
Brenda quote: “Sure you can be both. They are quite clever for short-term return. But they're foolish because they won't look at long-term investment.”
So if the evil Americans are only good short term players and are long term morons wouldn’t that imply that most of the rest of the world is infected with the opposite problem.
I.e. the rest of the world is stupid in the short term since they are being tricked time and time again by evil American (short term) conspiracies but paradoxically are so much smarter than evil Americans in the long term since they understand long term investment?
Brenda quote: “Just because you play the game well doesn't make the game worth playing.”
I don’t really understand this sentence. Do you (or anyone) really think the evil Americans are playing any part (either long or short) of the game well?
And world domination through endless conspiracies might not be a moral game but control of the world has been seen as quite a nice prize throughout history.
BTW how about defining short and long term when it comes to evil American conspiracies to control the Middle East?
A long vs. short term definition would be interesting because here in the Middle East the media talking heads believe the evil Americans have been running conspiracies to destabilize and thus control the Middle East/Oil for most of the 20th and all of the 21st century so maybe from the evil Americans point of view their conspiracies are winning the long term.
It just depends on the definition so what do you personally think is short vs. long term in years for evil American conspiracies?
Brenda quote: “(And by the way, "Americans" is far too generalising; I'm assuming you mean the American political/corportate elite)”
By evil Americans I am referring to the evil, war mongering, capitalist running dog, cowboys hell bent on a regime changing a Joseph Stalin wantabe no matter what the cost in blood, treasure and oil vs. those peaceful gentle souls in the streets in early 2003 waving signs in “Save Our Saddam” marches or today in “Save our Mullah” and/or save “whoever is the anti American folk hero of the day” marches.
All the best,
Warmest Regards, Smoker